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TCDD DH44100
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by Maschinenbau Kiel· from 1955· class of 6 Turkish diesel-hydraulic locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. DH44106: Alan Swale· CC BY-SA 2.5
what is it?
TCDD DH44100 was a series of six diesel-hydraulic shunters bought by the Turkish State Railways (TCDD) from Maschinenbau Kiel (MaK) in 1955. The units were very close to the DB Class V 65 used by Deutsche Bundesbahn. Likewise, they were a derivative of the original MaK 800 D design and the other MaK rod-coupled locomotives.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 71 years ago, in 1955.
- 588 kW is about 7 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 9 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 10.6 m long: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1955
- in service from
- 1955
- number built
- 6
- kind
- Diesel-hydraulic
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- Maschinenbau Kiel
- operators
- Turkish State Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- 588 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-8-0
- length
- 10.6 m
- weight
- 54 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7669648, Wikipedia: TCDD DH44100 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.